Workshop for Parents: The Words That Shape Us

Workshop for Parents: The Words That Shape Us
This workshop offers language and strategies that can transform how children perceive themselves and navigate challenges—at home, in the classroom, and beyond. Words aren’t just tools for communicating with others, they’re also tools for regulating and more positively navigating our interior worlds. This truth carries profound implications for the ways in which parents talk to kids, especially as anxiety rates and perfectionist tendencies soar.
Beyond supporting children, this workshop also explores how the words we tuck away and repeat to ourselves as caregivers can help us operate with more self-trust, self-compassion, and joy.
About Lily:
Lily Howard Scott (MSEd) is an educator and author. She teaches graduate school at Bank Street College of Education and supports school leaders, teachers, and caregivers around the country with literacy learning and social and emotional learning (SEL).
Lily reaches thousands of educators and parents each year though her consulting work, partnering with organizations and schools including NYSAIS, The 92nd Street Y, Barrow Street Nursery School, The Brick Church School, The British International School of New York, Beauvoir: The National Cathedral Elementary School, Chapin School, Grace Church School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, The Jewish Education Project, The International School of Brooklyn, Plymouth Church, and Park Avenue Synagogue, among others.
For nearly 10 years, Lily taught elementary school in both independent and public settings. She is the author of The Words That Shape Us (Scholastic, 2025), an award-winning book for educators. Lily lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

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